Schroth Racing All models - Competition Instructions User Manual
Schroth Racing Safety
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- Content
- SCHROTH has attempted to make this racing harness manual extensive and comprehensive. We have created it to help the reader understand racing harness installation, use and maintenance, and how it relates to safety in motorsports. Intensive research and experience in motorsports has led us to prepare up-to-date instructions for optimized anchor point locations and racing harness design features. The SCHROTH development of new racing harness configurations should be considered when defining anchorage locations. What was considered acceptable in the early and mid-1990s has changed and evolved as the result of currently available data. Therefore, we ask the drivers, mechanics, teams and race car manufacturers to read and heed the information in this manual carefully. Safe and effective HANS® use also depends on proper restraint routing and anchor point locations.
- “The sanctioning body regulating the motorsport series in which you are participating may have additional information specific to your chassis. All information in this document is based upon the best knowledge as of March 2009.”
- Profi and HybridTM racing harnesses, except for Profi-FE models, and are not approved or intended for use on public roads or off-road. They are designed and approved only for closed circuit race tracks. For legal street use, SCHROTH offers special ECE-R 16.04 (for Europe) respectively United States Department of Transportation approved models (FE-models). NEVER use unapproved Profi and HybridTM racing harnesses on public roads or off-road.
- Approvals for racing harnesses are granted by sanctioning bodies like FIA, NASCAR and SFI. Some SCHROTH racing harness models are approved by multiple sanctioning bodies and therefore may carry multiple labels. One of these labels should apply to the motorsport in which you are participating.
- Definitions
- FIA C-129.T/98
- FIA D-130.T/98
- Valid FIA labels may show various homologation numbers depending on the installation of an anti-sub strap [sub = abbreviation of submarining = sliding underneath the lap belt during a frontal impact]. E.g.:
- FIA B-137.T/98
- FIA C-129.T/98
- FIA D-130.T/98
- FIA D-136.T/98
- SFI Approved Racing Harnesses
- Racing harnesses specifically manufactured for motorsport requiring SFI Spec. 16.1 or SFI Spec. 16.5 approval are SFI tested and labelled. These racing harnesses MUST be replaced two years after the month and year of manufacture. The date of manufacture is indicated on all three SFI labels – [1] at the left lap belt, [2] at the left shoulder harness and [3] at the Anti-Sub Strap.
- example for a spreader using FIA 8857-2001 padding material
- Lock Nut Carabiner
- Inspection
- Examples of Improper Installation
- BAE SYSTEMS
- SCHROTH Safety Products GmbH
- US-Importer: